From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 18 02:00:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D8DC16A4D2 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:00:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from trunasuci@mail.com) Received: from webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com (webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com [205.158.62.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DD2743D49 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:00:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from trunasuci@mail.com) Received: from unknown (unknown [192.168.9.180]) by webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix) with QMQP id C00F01800D51 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:06:38 +0000 (GMT) X-OB-Received: from unknown (205.158.62.182) by wfilter.us4.outblaze.com; 18 Sep 2006 02:06:38 -0000 Received: by ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6CB7B1CE319; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:06:39 +0000 (GMT) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Ahmad Arafat Abdullah" To: "pobox@verysmall.org" , "Daniel Gerzo" Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:06:39 -0800 Received: from [60.49.202.201] by ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com with http for trunasuci@mail.com; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:06:39 -0800 X-Originating-Ip: 60.49.202.201 X-Originating-Server: ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com Message-Id: <20060918020639.6CB7B1CE319@ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:00:32 -0000 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "pobox@verysmall.org" > To: "Daniel Gerzo" > Subject: Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server > Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:49:34 +0200 >=20 >=20 > Daniel Gerzo wrote: > > Hello pobox, > > > > Saturday, September 16, 2006, 8:47:04 PM, you wrote: > > > >> Hello, > > > >> could somebody help me to understand the best way to enter into a sing= le > >> user mode on a remote server. > > > >> I need it for the moment, during rebuilding world, when I have to rebo= ot > >> into single user mode before 'mergemaster -p'. > > > > I don't want to persuade you to something that is not officially > > supported, but I have never booted into single user mode while > > upgrading my FreeBSD boxes and I have never experienced any problems > > because of this. Just try to skip the reboot step and go ahead. It > > works(tm) for me this way. > > > > If you are paranoid, try to stop all running services except the ssh > > deamon. >=20 > Phew... I hear this again and again. >=20 > Only I am not sure I have the level of boldness to do this on a=20 > production machine. >=20 > Isn't the following sequence of steps similar - 'shutdown -r now'=20 > (reboots in multi-user mode), and then immediately 'shutdown now'=20 > (drops to single user mode)? >=20 > Iv. >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > dudes, I never tried it, and not dare to try it.. because it's a remote server and= =20 single mode maybe ( I'm not sure dude ) cut off all network connections fro= m=20 inside and outside.. anyway for remote servers, i'm prefer make installwold in normal mode.. it'= s safer TQ=20 --=20 ___________________________________________________ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com